The Olympian and the CrossFitter

Gymnast Dominique Moceanu Helps Julie Foucher With Handstand Push-Ups

A couple of years back, a former high school gymnast from Michigan named Julie Foucher was in the hunt to win the CrossFit Games—the fast-growing strength and endurance competition that determines, in its own words, "the fittest on earth." Over several days, Foucher lifted, swam, ran and jumped. Wait: that is making it sound way too much like a lazy day at sleep-away summer camp. The CrossFit Games are not a lazy afternoon at sleep-away summer camp. They can be grueling. Like her competitors, Foucher repeatedly pushed...